Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace. The Bible tells one big story of redemption,

and we want to spend five minutes every day journeying through the Bible from start to

finish and exploring how all of it points to Jesus.

While hey friends, welcome back to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace. This is Stephanie

again your host through the Book of Leviticus. Today we are covering chapters 4 through 6.

These chapters continue to outline the different offerings that were to be a part of Israel's

worship. Again, these animal sacrifices can seem really odd to us today and we may be tempted

to write them off as irrelevant. But we have to remember that the primary theme of Leviticus

and really of all of scripture is a holy God making a way for sinful humanity to dwell in

his presence and this is achieved through sacrifices. Actually, the word offering is built from

the Hebrew root word that means to draw near. These offerings or sacrifices are the way

God's people can draw near to God. Ultimately, this is fully accomplished in the person

and work of Jesus, the true and better sacrifice. So in chapters 1, 2 and 3 of Leviticus, we

talked about three different offerings, the burnt offering, the grain offering and the

peace offering. Chapter 4 goes into the detail about the sin offering. This offering is also

known as the purification offering. It was offered to a tone for sins committed unintentionally.

These are sins committed unknowingly. The animal sacrifice depended on who committed

the sin. If it was a high priest or the whole congregation of Israel, a bowl without

blemish would be sacrificed. If it was a ruler, it would be a male goat without blemish.

If it was a common person, it would be a female goat or lamb without blemish. Interestingly,

the way that the animal's blood was handled in this offering was significant. For example,

to a tone for the sins of the congregation of Israel, this priest was to dip his finger

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